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Last week, more than 300 South Koreans, who were detained in a large -scale immigration raid at the Hyundai plant in the United States, Georgia, is due to come home on Friday.
Their return comes when the country’s president and Hyundai Executive Director warned about the impact of the raid.
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The plane is expected to arrive at Inchhon International Airport on Friday after lunch Seoul.
The departure was detained for more than a day with the White House instruction, South Korean President Li Ja Maun said on Thursday.
President Donald Trump has ordered a pause to check whether workers are ready to stay in the US to continue working and train Americans, according to a South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
BBC contacted the White House for comments.
Lee also said Companies will “very hesitate” about investment in the US after raid.
“The situation is extremely surprising,” Lee added, noting that Korean firms are a common practice to send workers to help create foreign factories.
“If this is no longer allowed, the creation of production capacities in the US will only be more difficult … To make the company question whether it should be done at all,” he added.
Seoul negotiates with Washington on a visa options for South Korean workers, “does this provide (higher) quotas or creation of new categories of visas,” Lee said.
On Friday, the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs said she called on the US Congress to support a new visa for Korean firms.
During the meetings with us, the Senators in Washington this week, Foreign Minister Cho Hyun confirmed concern about the South Koreans about arrests, the ministry said.
Meanwhile, Hyundai Executive Director Jose Munos said Raid deposit opening plant.
Munos Munos told us that the raid would create “a minimum for two -three months (opening the factory) because now all these people want to return.”
AFPLast week, US officials detained 475 people – More than 300 of their South Korea citizens – which, according to them, work illegally in the battery, one of the largest foreign investment projects in Georgia.
The LG Energy Solution, which works at the Hyundai plant, said many of its employees were arrested, there were different types of visas or were within the visa waiver program.
A The worker at the factory talked with BBC About panic and confusion during the raid. The employee said the vast majority of detained workers were mechanics who set the production lines on the spot and were occupied by the contractor.
South Korea, close to us in Asia, has pledged to invest tens of billions of dollars in America, partly to compensate for tariffs.
The media in the country described the raid as “shock” when the Dong-A ILBO newspaper warned that it could “cool down on the activities of our business in the US.”
On Thursday, Yonhap news agency published an editorial staff calling on two countries to “cooperate on crack repair in its union.”
The raid terms because two governments participate in sensitive trade talks, caused concern about Seoul.
The White House defended the operation at the Hyundai plant, rejecting the concern that the raid could restrain foreign investments.
On Sunday, US President Donald Trump referred to a raid in a social media report and urged foreign companies to hire Americans.
The US government will make it “quickly and legally” for foreign firms to bring workers to the country if it was respected by immigration laws, Trump said.
Additional Hosu Lee Report in Seoul
